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On April 1, Phoenix Technology launched a new virtual product that has been in development for more than a year. The virtual world finally met the public and was named "Second World" by them.

This name shows that they are okay, and they intend to build the virtual world into the second world of human beings. Once it was released, it caused a huge sensation in the world.

The entire second world is based on the earth, but it is not a 100% replica, it is just similar in shape. If it is really based on the region, it may face a lot of controversy.

The most typical example is the land that is internationally disputed. Which country is allocated to it? Obviously, no matter what you do, it will be difficult to satisfy people. It is unnecessary to cause trouble for yourself for no reason.

Moreover, many ideas of Phoenix Technology will be added to the virtual world in the future, which is too close to reality, which is not conducive to their performance, and the chances of making money may be much less.

As for why not just abandon the practice of using the earth as a blueprint, the purpose is to have a more sense of substitution, and it will take a lot less time, so you don’t need to rely entirely on imagination.

Ye Zishu took a look at it. Although it was far from the virtual world he gave to Baihu Technology Company, as a civilian technology product, it was almost impeccable.

Put on the smart glasses and start the virtual reality mode. The immersion is very good. The picture in the second world is not grainy, and it is almost the same as what the human eye sees in the real world.

Behind this is the massive calculation provided by the super quantum computer, which makes each frame of the picture close to the real world. Without the support of the super quantum computer, there will never be such a high degree of detail.

However, such a high-definition picture naturally needs a display device that is close to the human eye. For this reason, Qinglong Technology Company has specially launched smart glasses for the "second world".

The display pixels of this smart glasses are as high as 600 million, which is by far the highest pixel display device for civilian consumption. Naturally, the price is also extremely expensive, and the price of each smart glasses is as high as 100,000 yuan.

Because the upgrade is not only the pixels of the lens, but also the supporting computing unit, light projection unit, power supply unit, etc., each unit represents the pinnacle of today's consumer technology.

If it is not for the consideration of popularization, even if it sells for 200,000 yuan, it is completely worthy of it, and it is definitely not inflated. As for the actual production cost, it is actually not high, and each unit is about 10,000 yuan.

Although it is not a complete replica of the earth, it can more or less correspond to some countries. After the users of each country log in, they are not all crowded together, and they will be arranged in countries near their country.

Although the names are different, the local customs and culture will be closer to the cultural background of the logged-in users, which can improve the user experience.

This is also what Ye Zishu appreciates.

Phoenix Technology did not hard-core create an empty virtual world, but added cultural elements from the earth.

They themselves have such confidence, because they have been sorting out the global civilization encyclopedia, or database, in order to better preserve the cultural characteristics of earth civilization.

There are two main purposes at the beginning. The first is to avoid the disappearance of civilization and culture. After all, these are of high value in the era when content is king. It would be a pity if they disappeared without being recorded.

The second is practical needs. As a global enterprise, if you don't understand the characteristics of each civilization, you can't study their real needs, and you can't make each civilization and country accept their operations in a relatively comfortable way.

The globalization of the old m in the previous life was actually relying on force, relying on economic, military and financial means to impose his own will on various civilizations and countries.

Obviously, our country didn't have that kind of strength at that time, and we didn't want to do this. It would not only arouse the resentment of these civilizations and countries, but also cause potential troubles for ourselves, and the effect may not be very good.

In fact, it also proves the accuracy of this approach. Relying on local differentiated operations, Phoenix Technology has become the most successful global company, and even some companies are considered by local people to be companies in their own country.

Because the localization is so successful, it is very suitable for local consumers. As long as you don’t deliberately study it, you won’t feel any discomfort in terms of user experience. It’s not surprising that you are mistaken for a local company.

Of course, localized operation also increases the cost of competitors, because it means more investment, more employees, and the cost must be multiplied at least several times.

And they don't have the technical strength of Phoenix Technology, so they can only rely on manpower to stack them. The same result, the cost is many times higher than that of Phoenix Technology, and they are not competing on the same level at all.

The entire virtual world is actually built on the basis of game technology, and even the bottom layer of the entire virtual world is a set of more advanced game engines.

This is fundamentally different from the virtual world he created for Baihu Technology Company. On the surface, the "second world" is indeed very real, but it cannot be studied in detail.

For example, conducting scientific experiments in the "second world" has no effect, because the underlying rules in it are not the rules of the real world.

It's just that a delicate skin is made outside the simple skeleton, and then the physical and chemical characteristics on the surface are used to demonstrate the natural state, making it look more natural and real.

The underlying logic of the virtual world he developed for Baihu Technology Company is constructed according to the underlying logic of the real world, and scientific experiments can be carried out in it.

Although the effect is not necessarily 100% the same as the real world, after all, it is not 100% authentic, but the more superficial experimental research, the closer it is to the real world.

To be honest, this level of virtual world is not too difficult for Phoenix Technology, and the real difficulty lies not in the construction of the virtual world.

Because they have powerful artificial intelligence and advanced quantum computers to provide computing power and intellectual support, and they have made games for so many years, they have always been the industry leader.

Leaf Book is not surprised at all about their construction of this level of virtual world, and they can handle it by themselves without even providing him with too much technical support.

The real difficulty lies in data communication. The higher the degree of realism, the higher the resolution, and the higher the communication data required for screen transmission. With the current Internet bandwidth, there will only be non-stop freezes.

If this problem cannot be solved, no matter how good the virtual world built by Phoenix Technology is, the user experience will be completely poor, and it will be completely reduced to a failure.

With their own abilities, they definitely can't solve this problem, and then turn to Lingtong Technology Company, a subsidiary of Qinglong Technology Company, for help, hoping that they can solve this problem.

Obviously, this requirement is beyond the strength of Lingtong Technology Company. They have this level of communication technology, and they can barely do it with the 4G communication technology they released.

However, global communication operators will never quickly replace their 3G network with 4G for this reason. The cost is too high.

At the very least, they will not consider whether to replace their network with 4G until they get back the money they have invested and earn a certain amount of money at the same time.

Lingtong Technology Company couldn't solve it, so they turned to Baihu Technology Company for help. In fact, they didn't know how advanced the global satellite communication system of Baihu Technology Company was.

The global satellite communication system of Baihu Technology Company must meet the requirements, but it has not been fully demonstrated in the civilian field at present, not to mention that there will be quantum communication technology in the future, let alone a problem.

The question is, can users afford such a high data traffic rate? With a traffic rate of several gigabytes per second, even local tyrants cannot afford such high data traffic charges.

It may not be intuitive to say so. According to the calculation of domestic traffic charges by Baihu Technology, 24 hours a day, 2.6 million yuan in traffic fees is required, and the traffic fee alone is as high as more than 900 million yuan a year.

Baihu Technology gave them a calculation, which completely shattered their hopes, and it was impossible for Baihu Technology to cut prices for them alone, which would affect the overall operation.

They had no choice but to find Ye Zishu's head, which was their last hope. Of course, Ye Zishu did not disappoint them, and really solved it for them.

The reason why they want to run all the content on the backend is mainly because the computing power of the front-end equipment is not enough to bring up such a huge virtual world.

Even if a special algorithm is used, only the part seen by the eyes is included in the calculation. With such a delicate picture, not to mention smart glasses, even the super server will be down.

Ye Zishu’s solution is to use the front-end and back-end cooperation model to solve it. The front-end mainly solves it through two aspects. The first is to improve the hardware level.

The second-generation smart glasses were also developed by him himself. In the past, Qinglong Technology Company would also upgrade them, but they were all minor changes. The general framework was still the original plan provided by Ye Zishu.

This time, under the hands of Ye Zishu, the second-generation smart glasses have been upgraded in all aspects. Needless to say, lens imaging and light projection, the most important ones are computing units, storage units and energy supply units.

Considering that the size of smart glasses is too small and the usable space is limited, Leaf Book does not use conventional chip technology, but directly uses quantum chips.

However, unlike the quantum chip of a super quantum computer, it uses a new quantum chip technology. Although the qubit has only 50 bits, its volume is very small, a circle smaller than a grain of rice.

To be honest, the technical content of this quantum chip alone is worth 200,000 yuan. If it is sold on the market alone, the supply will definitely exceed the demand. If it is used in smart glasses, it will still be sold at a low price. It is definitely a waste of money.

The storage unit uses the storage technology used by the remote sensing satellite system of Baihu Technology Company. With the size of the fingernail of a little finger, the storage space reaches the 1tb level.

In fact, it can be higher, but it is not necessary, because most of the storage space is temporarily storing data, as a data buffer between the chip results and the imaging system.

The energy storage system uses the energy storage system technology of the general robot, but it is improved. Although the power stored per unit is lower, the volume can be made smaller.

After the comprehensive improvement of the hardware, the performance of the smart glasses has been greatly improved, but this alone is not enough, because the power consumption is still a bit large if the front-end calculation is completely relied on.

It is impossible for Yeshu to use super energy storage technology for smart glasses. In order to reduce the dependence on the front-end hardware, it is appropriate to lean towards the back-end.

Leaf Book also improved the algorithm of the whole system, so that the front and back ends can cooperate to run the "Second World". At the same time, it also improved the communication module, making the communication more stable and the amount of data transmitted less.

After his own research and development, most of the problems have been solved, but although the data transmission volume has been reduced a lot, it is still relatively high overall.

If the satellite communication network is used, the communication cost is still high, so consumers can only choose fiber optic network and home wireless network to access the Internet, but if they do so, the fluency of the network may be poor.

So Yeshu gave both options. As for whether to make further improvements, Yeshu thinks it is unnecessary. This will instead encourage communication operators to further upgrade their network equipment.

Only the communication equipment of Lingtong Technology Company and Huawei Technology Company can have a market. If these operators are still indifferent, let Baihu Technology Company launch an exclusive package to reduce the communication cost of the "Second World".

If you are still indifferent, then don't blame him for being rude, just ask Baihu Technology to cut prices and launch exclusive packages with wider applicability to reduce unit traffic costs.

Anyway, for Baihu Technology Company, the cost of doing so is not very high, but it will bring them a lot of benefits, and at the same time force communication operators to keep up.

Sure enough, on the second day after Phoenix Technology's virtual world was released, it was the same day that Qinglong Technology's second-generation smart glasses went on the market.

Baihu Technology Co., Ltd. has launched an exclusive package to support network communication services in the virtual world. The price has been greatly reduced, which is one-tenth of the previous traffic price.

However, users will not save money because the unit traffic price is low, but the total usage is also rising rapidly, and the overall cost is still much higher than before.

According to calculations, if you play the virtual world for eight hours a day, you will need 1,000 yuan in monthly traffic charges, although most people cannot have so much time to play every day.

But on average, it needs to pay an additional communication fee of more than 200 yuan. In this regard, Baihu Technology has no plans to further reduce the price.

The reason is that users who can afford 100,000 yuan of smart glasses and can play in the "Second World" are not short of such a small amount of money. As for users who are incapable, they are not their service targets. .

This is different from the previous strategy. Conventional communication is a necessity of life and needs to be popularized, but this kind of high-end business does not need to be popularized.

Anyway, as far as domestic living standards are concerned, even those who receive social security benefits will not be under great pressure. As for consumers in other countries, they don't think about it.

The operation of "Second World" adopts a membership-based business model. If you want to play inside, you need to pay a membership fee of 200 yuan per month.

The membership fee does not have any additional benefits, it is just the qualification to use the "Second World". The reason is that the operating cost is too high, and it is necessary to ensure that the basic operating cost can be recovered.

But there is nothing wrong with this statement. Apart from other things, the cost of the super quantum computer alone is very high. This membership fee should be regarded as the cost of the super quantum computer and the cost of data communication.

Most of the projects in the "Second World" are actually commercial projects, and they need to pay extra fees, because the way they really make money is the resources in the "Second World".

For example, if a player wants to buy a piece of land to build a house in the second world, he needs to pay to sell the land. To build a house, he needs to hire people, and he also needs to pay, but it is generally much cheaper than the real world.

At present, the projects they are preparing are mainly divided into three types. The first one is commercial real estate projects. Buyers who buy commercial real estate can open shops in it.

Real objects can be sold in the "Second World" store. For this reason, they have specially developed more advanced object scanning equipment to help record real objects into the virtual world.

The scanning device can not only record the shape of the object, but also record the functional structure of the object, that is to say, it can also be used in the virtual world instead of a simple model.

The only regret is that the information on smell and taste cannot be entered, because even if it is entered, the consumer must have matching equipment, which must be very expensive.

Because if you want to present it perfectly, you must use brain-computer equipment, and the price is at least hundreds of thousands of yuan. Ordinary people simply cannot afford it, and there is no need to launch it for the time being.

The most important thing is that the current "Second World" does not have this function at all. Don't think it is very simple. To add these functions requires a great breakthrough in technology. If Ye Shu does not provide them with it, they will not be able to develop it in a short time .

The second is virtual games. They incorporate many virtual games under the Seagull Interactive Entertainment Company, and use the model of building a two-dimensional space or a parallel universe to achieve mutual connection.

For this reason, Sea-Gull Interactive Entertainment had to upgrade its virtual games, and at the same time produced many new virtual games, with more grand scenes and stronger sense of participation for players.

The third is tourism projects, including real tourist attractions and tourist attractions designed by Phoenix Technology, allowing users to visit the global landscape without leaving home.

Of course, in the reality of the scenery, Phoenix Technology has reached cooperation with their management units, and the lesser-known scenic spots have adopted a buyout model.

Most of the world's well-known scenic spots have adopted the sharing model, and the bulk must be occupied by Phoenix Technology, otherwise they will not cooperate.

There are also many attractions that are free. These free attractions are generally some countries that want to promote themselves, so these attractions are not particularly complete.

As for the scenic spots designed by themselves, there are also two kinds of free and charged. The free scenic spots are generally not particularly grand, and belong to the category of small but refined.

As for paid tourism projects, the general scene is very grand, and it is even possible to build a relatively complete world. It takes a lot of energy, and naturally it cannot be free.

There are many other revenues, such as transportation, human relations, public services, etc. It is said that it is a virtual world, but it is actually no different from the real world, and it is simulated according to the operation of the real world.

In other words, if you have no money, even in the virtual world, it is not easy to travel abroad, because air tickets are not cheap.

Of course, you can also choose the fast transportation mode, so that you don’t have to bear the boredom of taking transportation, and you can directly be sent to a fixed location, which can also save the user’s time.

However, if this is done, many users will definitely be blocked from the "second world". This is what Phoenix Technology does not want to see, so they still have a whole set of task systems.

This is different from the simple task system in the game. In fact, it can be regarded as a part-time job system. Users are not willing to spend money and can make money through part-time jobs.

The system will release relevant tasks based on each person's performance or ability and expertise. These tasks are generally valuable tasks to Phoenix Technology.

In addition to accepting the tasks provided by the system, you can also accept the employment of other people and entities. For example, in reality, if a company opens a store, you can hire people to be shop assistants.

In fact, Phoenix Technology also provides artificial intelligence employees, but the price is relatively high, and the professional ability is relatively high. Anyway, it cannot compete with ordinary people for jobs.

It is more cost-effective for them to hire real-world employees when it is not necessary, and it also gives many people in the real world the opportunity to work in the "second world".

Earning money through part-time work can not only be used for consumption in the "second world", but also can be converted into real currency for cash withdrawal. This is the most powerful place.

But don’t try to grab the wool of Phoenix Technology Company. There is a sound economic system in the “Second World”, which will maintain economic balance on the whole, and economic imbalance is unlikely.

And when withdrawing cash, Phoenix Technology needs to charge a service fee. Although the service fee is not high, it will add up to a lot, and it will be considerable in the future.

The financial system inside and the financial system connected to the outside are all in cooperation with the Tidal Group. The currency exchanged is the universe currency, and the tide group provides the service of exchanging the universe currency into other currencies.

In the same way, if you want to deposit money into it, on the surface it will be filled with the national currency, but in fact it will be the universe currency. If a country does not have too many universe currency foreign exchange, the exchange rate may change greatly.

Although there are many unsatisfactory aspects, "Second World" is definitely regarded as a black technology product in terms of the current technological level, and its self-release dependence has caused huge repercussions.

In particular, people who can afford to buy the second-generation smart glasses went in one after another to find out, and then came back and published a lot of experience, which further boosted the popularity of the "second world".

However, the number of users must be limited in the early stage. After all, the entry threshold is relatively high. I believe that after a long time, the accumulated number of users will definitely not be small.

Fortunately, you won't be lonely inside. Phoenix Technology has used a lot of artificial intelligence technology and created a lot of NPCs. The virtual world is still quite lively.

In the future, they plan to implement more interfaces to connect the virtual world with the real world, so that the virtual world can create more value.

If he is not satisfied, he is not satisfied, and he has never thought about civilianizing the virtual helmet now, let Phoenix Technology Company toss for a while.